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Steve Tesich

STEVE TESICH  (1942 - 1996)

 Nationality:    Serbian born - USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  


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below is a list of Steve Tesich's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Arts & Leisure         Baba Goya         Baptismal         Carpenters, The         Division Street         Gorky         Lake of the Woods         Nourish The Beast         On the Open Road         Passing Game         Road, The         Speed of Darkness, The         Square One         Touching Bottom

Arts & Leisure

Steve Tesich
self absorbed drama critic who judges theatre and life by the same criteria, to absurd extremes

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997
in Plays From Playwrights Horizons, Volume 2, Broadway Play Pub; first edition (October 1, 2010)   978-0881453713

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Baba Goya

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Notes:
aka Nourish the Beast

1st Produced:
New York    1973

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1st Published:
in "Division Street and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1981   -

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Baptismal

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Notes:
Part Of Touching Bottom

1st Produced:
Rose, SW3, London    1990

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Carpenters, The

Synopsis:
Is concerned with a family living in a decaying house that is about to tumble down. The fumbling, inept father tries to "communicate" with his children, but settles for listening to tape recordings of the childish games of happier, simpler days; the mother barely thinks or feels anymore, and devotes her days to preparing food; the older son makes listless plans to kill his father; the younger son, slightly retarded, dreams of escaping to the unspoiled wilds of Oregon; and the daughter, a college drop-out, becomes, in an oddly gentle way, the sex object of both father and brother. In the end there are discoveries, and compassion, but also a sense of aching loss of the relentlessness of the fate which the Carpenters have, like betrayed innocents, ordained for themselves.

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1971   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Division Street

Synopsis:
a burnt out 60's radical has settled in Chicago seeking obscurity as an insurance underwriter, he wants to forget his activist past but is besieged by old and new cronies

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1st Produced:
Los Angeles    1980

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1st Published:
in "Division Street and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1981   -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Gorky

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music by Mel Marvin

1st Produced:
New York    1975

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1976   -

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Play with Music

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Lake of the Woods

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1st Produced:
New York    1971

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1st Published:
in "Division Street and Other Plays", Performing Arts Journal Publications, New York, 1981   -

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Nourish The Beast

Synopsis:
In Queens a loudmouth mother goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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On the Open Road

Steve Tesich
a civil war and the consequences for looters fleeing from it and their eventual crucifixion in a stunning parable

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1st Produced:
Chicago    1992

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1st Published:
ApplAuse Books, New York, 1992   978-1557831347

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  1b 1g

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Passing Game

Synopsis:
two once promising actors engage in increasingly violent baseball games as they plot to kill their wives; murder does take place but not the one they've planned

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1st Produced:
New York    1977

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1978   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Road, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part Of Touching Bottom

1st Produced:
Rose, SW3, London    1990

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Play/Drama

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Speed of Darkness, The

Synopsis:
successful businessman and pillar of society chickens come home to roost when deranged Vietnam War buddy turns up

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1st Produced:
Chicago    1989

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 1989    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Square One

Steve Tesich
set in a benign Orwellian state, zany woman escapes to marry an Artist Third Class

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1st Produced:
New York    1990

Company:
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1st Published:
ApplAuse Books, New York, 1990   978-1557830760

Music:
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Genre:
Satirical Comedy Satire

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Touching Bottom

Synopsis:
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includes The Road, A Life, Baptismal

1st Produced:
New York    1978

Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1980   -

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